Yusuke Hirata

Yusuke Hirata is the New York bureau chief of The Sankei Shimbun.

Japanese Americans

Reading America: Asian and Japanese Americans Anxious in New Era of US-China Rivalry

Yusuke Hirata December 7, 2022

Asian Americans are concerned about a resurgence of the discrimination suffered by 120,000 Japanese...

Japanese Americans

Lessons from a Crisis of Democracy: Narrating the Internment of Japanese Americans

Yusuke Hirata September 21, 2022

They were deprived of their liberty and property rights guaranteed by the US Constitution...

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INTERVIEW | Climate Change in Focus as Syukuro Manabe Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

Yusuke Hirata October 6, 2021

“There are all kinds of climate-related changes happening now. Which is why I think...

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INTERVIEW | Myanmar’s UN Envoy Wants Japan to Cut Ties with Myanmar’s Military

Yusuke Hirata May 12, 2021

“We don't want to go back to the system that we used to be...